Read article 'New training PARTNERship joins the battle against cancer'
On 16–17 October members of a new four-year, EU-funded project met at CERN for the kick-off meeting of the Particle Training Network for European Radiotherapy (PARTNER)
Read article 'EC funds design study for gravitational observatory'
The European Commission (EC) has allocated €3 million within the Seventh Framework Programme for preliminary studies for the development of the Einstein Telescope – a major new gravitational-wave...
Read article 'Fermi discovers a gamma-ray-only pulsar'
The first highlight of the recently launched Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope is the discovery of a new type of object: a gamma-ray pulsar without detectable pulsations at radio, optical or X-ray wavel...
Read article 'INTEGRAL pinpoints acceleration'
The discovery with ESA’s International Gamma-ray Astronomical Laboratory (INTEGRAL) satellite that the gamma-ray emission of the Crab Nebula is strongly polarized along the direction of its spin axi...
Read article 'DOE approves 12 GeV upgrade for CEBAF'
Jefferson Lab received approval to begin construction upgrade to the 12 GeV CEBAF
Read article 'JINST provides open access to LHC articles'
Seven major articles on the LHC and its detectors have been published electronically in a special issue of the Journal of Instrumentation (JINST).
Read article 'ASPERA names its magnificent seven'
In the same room that hosted the first Solvay conference in 1911 at the Hotel Metropôle in Brussels, on 29–30 September the AStro Particle ERAnet (ASPERA) network presented the European strategy f...
Read article 'Belle finds more exotic mesons'
The Belle collaboration has announced the discovery at the Japanese B-factory, KEKB, of three new exotic sub-atomic particles, which they have labelled the Z1, Z2 and Yb. The Z1 and Z2 states appear t...
Read article 'D0 observes b-version omega'
First observation of the b-version omega consisting two strange quarks and a b quark.
Read article 'Nobel rewards for work on broken symmetry'
Broken symmetry in particle physics is the underlying theme for the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics.
